Legacy media has an age problem.  As it stands, the printed press readership skews older and younger audiences who have little appetite to pick up the practice of reading physical papers. As print’s audience diminishes, publishers have refocused their efforts on building their digital offerings. However, it is said that it takes 2.5 digital subscriptions to compensate for the loss of one print subscription. So, publishers are faced with two...

Few journalists have exposed government wrongdoing in Latin America quite like Gustavo Gorriti.The Peruvian journalist has uncovered some of the hemisphere’s biggest corruption scandals — and suffered the consequences. Having risen to prominence in the 1980s chronicling the rise of the brutal Shining Path Marxist guerrilla insurgency, he soon found official malfeasance a rich target. When he exposed the drug ties of President Alberto Fujimori’s intelligence chief, the hard-right...

A US investigative news outlet that has just hired nine new journalists to its team puts its ability to invest down to its flourishing subscriber strategy.The Lever was launched as a newsletter in 2020 by David Sirota, a speechwriter and senior adviser for the Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign. Sirota has also been a columnist for Guardian US, editor-at-large for American left publication Jacobin and senior investigations editor for...

TikTok will voluntarily suspend its new app TikTok Lite's reward programme while it tries to resolve EU concerns, the company said on X social media platform on Wednesday.The European Commission is using its Digital Services Act (DSA) rules to force major online companies to do more to tackle illegal and harmful content on their platforms, with TikTok targeted for its impact on children.The EU executive had given the ByteDance-owned...